Tackling data sovereignty
Posted on 4-Mar-2015 09:59
From a story I wrote for TechTarget’s Storage ANZ eZine: Storage is a popular and fast-growing cloud service in Australia, but it comes with its challenges, not least local laws and latency Download the February ANZ Storage Management e-zine. There is a form to fill in, but that’ll give you access to a lot more […]... (Comments)

HTC Re camera review
Posted on 12-Feb-2015 13:26
Ever felt that taking photos with your smartphone is kind of cumbersome? What about an easy to use camera that pairs with your smartphone but doesn't need it all the time?... (Comments)

Acronis True Image Unlimited 2015 review
Posted on 30-Jan-2015 10:03
In my view Acronis True image has been for years the gold standard for PC image backups. For me it all started with Norton Ghost but since Symantec retired that product Acronis True Image software took that space.... (Comments)

This weekend (28th February / 1st March) sees the New Zealand VEX Robotics championships being held at the Vodafone Events Centre.
The VEX Robotics Competition has more than 10,000 teams from 32 countries playing in over 750 tournaments worldwide. Each year, an exciting engineering challenge is pre...

If you're a frequent flyer you'll be used to the benefits that some with status with an airline such as lounge access, priority boarding, preferred seating and so on. Qantas are clearly keen to target New Zealand based frequent flyers by offering a status match to Qantas Gold for New Zealand residen...

So I got married on the 16th of January, and in the month or so before the wedding my wife to be had expressed an interest (look how diplomatic my wording is) in getting a coffee table for our lounge. This is where all her wedding glamour shots would be happening so she was keen for a high quality p...

2Degrees has kept their word since launch - to provide the best value in mobile market.In September, I compared vodafone and 2degrees share plan. I did'nt switch to 2Degrees as vodafone was able to offer me a comparable data for the price I was paying after talking to the retention team.I always won...

On one side we have POLi, the payment processor that wraps around your browser as you login to your online banking, and watches as you make a direct credit payment to a merchant. The benefit to you as a consumer is there is no credit card surcharge payable for the merchant, so they pass this benefi...

NZ has fantastic broadband. I've written about this plenty of times, and it seems that many NZers are finally beginning to accept that despite certain ISPs and political parties having bombarded us with propaganda telling us that we have "3rd world internet", that we actually have both a world class...

I do not receive a lot of snail mail/physical mail these days. Courier yes, about once a day on average. The metal box , standing proud, in the drive receives few visitors, other than from the neighborhood dogs. But this morning there was a solo delivery. The local Newspaper Wanganui Chronicle was ...

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